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Made to measure dresses

I'm always so flattered when someone gets in touch looking for help to design and make an outfit  for their special occasion. Luckily most come with an exact idea of what they want, but the exciting, if time consuming ones are the designs that start as a patchwork of ideas. I'm not the best artist in the world, but I do enjoy those drawings that start out as a pencil skirt and finish as a catsuit.

Fulera Seidu, President of ACNAG: (ATAG Craft Network Association of Ghana ) was selected out of 1000s of craft workers in Ghana to represent her country at the 2014 Olympics in Brazil at the cultural market.

 It was a massive honour for me to be asked to design and make 2 casual tops that would scream Ghana ! and would allow her to show off her Ebony wood, bone and glass bead jewelry.





As you can see Fulera was a success in her red, gold and green elasticated tops. one had a large circular single flouncy sleave and the other a boob tube. When Fulera returned she said I had missed a trick, she could have sold the tops 100s of times over.2020  Tokyo we will be coming prepared.

Akua the Creator of The British Blacklist  is one of the hardest working people I know and definitely deserves to be always going to awards ceremonies and hob nobbing with the stars.










Making the dress she wore for the Back 2 Black awards awards was a real pleasure, she like so many people today like a fitted dress but don't want the discomfort of boning. So I have to be a little creative to cut and sew to show off her curves, without the dress being too tight.

I also had to weight the tail of the dress so that it would maintain the flair as she walked. We had a little practice of how to elegantly pick up the tail and walk up the stairs.
As you can see from the photos. this was not necessary. Akua looked amazing and wore her dress well, with pose and elegance.







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Akua's lovely daugther came to see me about having a very special prom dress for the end of term. It took a while to come up with the design, but finally after trying on a few styles and looking through 100s of pictures on pinterest, we put together all the elements that she liked and came up with this classic and classy plaited sweetheart fitted bodice with a flowing maxi skirt and a wide sash that ties to the side.

we don't often get a flowing African print, but there are plenty poly cotton African prints on the market that will give you the vibrant colour and a weighted flow.

























Mum's can go to the prom too nowadays, so Akua made a few changes to my wrap dress design and we came up with this stunning new design. The ladies told me later that  they had a lovely time and they received plenty of compliments on their dresses.

 You can ORDER ONLINE 
Or in person. Call me (Akua) 0207 328 1167 for an appointment to visit my workshop if you are in London 

You can look up design ideas on my PINTEREST PAGE 
or send me a sketch ofosuhene.akua@gmail.com. I will reply with a free quote.

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